The Rite – This Review Was Inspired by My Foot Falling Asleep
In a November 12, 2010 article from The New York Times, Laurie Goodstein reports “The rite of exorcism […] has largely fallen out of favor…
Preview Reviews
Scre4m – Satire Has Gone the Way of Words Made of Letters
In 1996, Drew Barrymore was trapped in her home, voyeurized through her many floor to ceiling windows, eventually stabbed through the heart, gutted groin to…
The Roommate — A Rant on Plagiarism
Shuffling through the final papers of the semester, I encounter one that discusses Richard Wright’s Lawd Today! and the genius of how Jake’s quotidian routine…
Country Strong — Even Redemption Needs to be Redeemed
Celebrities and performers are easy subjects for films because they personify qualities that many of us desire: affluence, success, and perhaps even fame. At the…
The Karate Kid: Child Abuse and Prelude to an International Skirmish
The original The Karate Kid is a synecdoche of the 80s; one that combines the underdog, underprivileged, middle-class Daniel Larusso (Ralph Macchio) – replete with…
By the Way, if Anyone Here Is in Advertising or Marketing … Kill Yourself
Bill Hicks was that dude. He was hilarious, intelligent and spoke truth to power. Which makes the fact that he died at 32 of pancreatic…
Will Arnett Watches Hockey, You Should Watch “The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret”
If you don’t like Will Arnett, we’re not friends. GOB Bluth of Arrested Development is probably the greatest character in TV history, and here he…